[C2.] Travelocity Regains Strength Travelocity, the once profitable -- and dominant -- online travel agency that lost its market position to Expedia, announced late last month that it had again reached profitability after two years in the red.
Furthermore, Timotheus Hoettges, CEO of Deutsche Telekom, recently was complaining that a company like WhatsApp (a few months ago acquired by Facebook for 19 billion dollars) is using Telekom infrastructure to virtually destroy a whole business area of Telekom -- the once profitable text messaging.
Until the contamination is removed, the channel on this once profitable link between New York City and the Great Lakes will remain too shallow for nearly all commercial shipping.
Several of the largest textile mills, including the Amoskeag mills, went out of business, and even the once-profitable Brown Paper Company of Berlin declared bankruptcy.
Dwindling have been the once-profitable old newspapers, thick plastic bottles and aluminium cans that could be easily baled and reused.
After years of uncertainty, the once-profitable copper mine on Bougainville, an autonomous province of Papua New Guinea (PNG), could well be reopened.
It became apparent that something needed to be done after the once-profitable state-owned racetracks, Monmouth and the Meadowlands, began losing money because of declining interest in horse racing and the slumping economy.
Executives of the once-profitable company, which sells software and services to help large corporations manage their assets, say they are confident that its revenue growth is back on track and that its bookkeeping problems are history.
First, an advertising boycott that deprived the once-profitable magazine of revenues, not only from state-controlled firms and those owned by the royal family, but also from private advertisers who were warned the palace would look adversely at any support for Le Journal, even though it was one of the best-selling publications in its category.
To expand circulation and advertising, Dow Jones softened the Review's focus and added more lifestyle features, but the once-profitable weekly lost money during its final six years.
There is not enough natural gas to cook food and the once-profitable railway system is breathing its last.
